Speakers from the Socialist Labour Party will join WPB activist Phil Bevin on Saturday to address a meeting about the Crisis in Public Health.
Category Archives: NHS
Nurses reject further pay cut
Nurses now join junior doctors in escalating what is effectively a fight for the NHS’s survival as a functioning, free at the point of use, world class healthcare provider.
Solidarity to striking Junior Doctors
This week so-called “Junior” Doctors are again taking industrial action across England for 96 hours to demand better pay and working conditions.
Analysis: Fall of Nicola Sturgeon
Political leaders across the collective west are dropping like ninepins since the start of the Ukraine war, now it is the turn of Nicola Sturgeon.
Maternal mortality is a shameful reflection of an unequal society
It will probably come as no surprise to many of our members and the public that the lives of expectant and new mothers in the UK are seriously deteriorating with the cost of living crisis and the crisis in mental health which inevitably accompanies it.
Nurses outside “civilised society” says Shapps
Business Secretary Grant Shapps yesterday accused ambulance workers of being outside the bounds of “civilised society”.
‘Protect our NHS’ while Labour and Tories sell it to the highest bidder!
Up to 100,000 NHS workers are facing the sack for failing to be vaccinated against covid-19 by the April deadline. We are being told that it is necessary for frontline NHS staff to take the vaccine to protect the health of their patients, this argument raises within it a few contradictions: The vaccine does notContinue reading “‘Protect our NHS’ while Labour and Tories sell it to the highest bidder!”
“3 Hospitals to 2”: Oppose the closure of Leicester General Hospital
Plans are well advanced to close Leicester General Hospital. Or in trust management doublespeak: “Leicester General has a key role to play in people’s future health and care needs by becoming a ‘community health campus’”. The obvious question is: what’s a community health campus? The short answer is: a closed hospital, without acute services. UniversityContinue reading ““3 Hospitals to 2”: Oppose the closure of Leicester General Hospital”
WP statement on Covid passports
The Workers Party of Britain is opposed to the mandatory use of identity card documents, or digital applications, linked to personal medical information, in this instance Covid status, either by proof of vaccination or recent test result.